In an attempt to provide you with more predictability, we'll be announcing maintenance and new build deployment ahead of time. In future, I hope to give more notice, but this is a start. The game server will be shutdown at Thu 03/10/2013 05:00 GMT and be up again in around 30-60 minutes, depending on how easily our maintenance goes. That's Wed 02/10/2013 22:00 PST, Thu 03/10/2013 01:00 EST for those in the US and Thu 03/10/2013 15:00 for those in Australia's east coast. As part of this maintenance window, we'll be splitting the game database out into separate database instances. This should be transparent to the game function, other than continued performance increases. However, it's possible that some bugs may have crept in. If so, we apologize in advance! If you'd like to help us test the build we're going to deploy, there's always the test server. Thanks!
Maintenace invaribly takes as long as it takes. Pilots and players often don't grasp this. Thanks for the notice and the update!
Indeed, thanks for the update. I was starting to get alarmed by the continuing outage combined with the lack of updates, and starting to wonder if I should be reporting a problem.
Again, thank you kindly for keeping us in the loop. It's unfortunate the maintenance is taking longer than it was intended to, but it's great to hear you're still working on it! The game is a lot of fun, you've made something unique and amazing here! ... and for those looking here, looks like it went up a couple seconds ago, just as I was finishing this post.
